Adults who achieve anything of value have seldom been 'co-operative' children. As a rule, they have liked solitude: they have tried to slink into a corner with a book and have been happiest when they could escape the notice of their barbarian contemporaries. Almost all men who have been distinguished as artists, writers or men of science have in boyhood been objects of derision and contempt to their schoolfellows; and only too often the teachers have sided with the herd, because it annoyed them that a boy should be od
Source:'Of cooperation' in: Mortals and Others; Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.1.
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